<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana">Mission: Andromeda's Chain</font></span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Verdana"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal;"></span></font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">Day: 1<br>Stardate: 2446.01.03</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="ydp9c830689MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px; font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(USS Exeter –Broken Bow – COO LTjg Paul Sleeford </span><span dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: rgb(29, 34, 40); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr">04:26)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana"><br></font></span></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana">“Maybe it was a failsafe in case T’Kel was compromised before warp power was knocked out “</font></span></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana"> Paul pondered the question, that was an option, but the question remained why, why go to all the trouble of disabling comms, why not have the life support slowly fail.</font></span></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;"><font face="Verdana">“I guess the plan was to leave us stranded out here but why? Its not like we are anything special we are a runabout for prophets’ sake.” </font></span></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;">Paul looked up, “ Ah yes, a runabout with the Chief Flight Officer and the Chief Operations Officer, the other shuttle has Tactical, Medical heads of department. Leaving Science and Engineering on the Exeter, me being a nasty suspicious old security officer jumps to one very nasty conclusion, get rid of those that can cause trouble.” </span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"></p><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#1d2228" face="Verdana"><span style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-style: normal;">Paul stared at the wall opposite for a few seconds deep in thought, the thoughts where nasty and some what troubling if the Exeter had been taken then by who, what race, most of the major races had been quite since the civil war, in fact most had taken the trouble to distance themselves from the federation, so who or what had happened.</span></font></blockquote><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font><p></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">“Do we know where the Muskogee was headed?”</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">“ I just wondered if it would be better to consult with our colleagues before rushing into heaven knows what on the Exeter”</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Reply Williams)</span></font></p><p class="ydpb1179fefMsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal; background-color: white;"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Posted by Alistair)</span></font></p></div></div></div></body></html>